NORTH DAKOTA. 



sleepers for the enlisted men on the return trip 

 from San Francisco. 



The new military buildings at Bismarck, to take 

 the place of the post at Fort Yates. are modern in 

 every respect. The barracks are of brick, 2 stories 

 high, with attic and basement. 



The battle flag of the First North Dakota Regi- 

 ment has 30 silver rings on the stall', indicating 

 the engagements in which the regiment fought. 

 This flag and the State flag were transferred to 

 the Adjutant General, Oct. 24. 



Products. The number of artesian wells in 

 the State is 078, giving, with the springs, a flow- 

 age of ,090.90< U>00 gallons of water per annum. 



The flax acreage in the State was reported as 

 600.000, with an average of 12 bushels to the 

 acre, at a value of $8.000,000, against 410,230 acres 

 last year, with a yield of 4.134,160 bushels. 



Education. The total number of school dis- 

 tricts organized in 1899 was 30; number discon- 

 tinued. 8; total number of districts, 1,177; num- 

 ber of schoolhouses built during the year, 117; 

 total seating capacity of all schoolhouses, 80,- 

 982: number of children enumerated, 76,651; num- 

 IKM- of days school was taught, 313,459; average 

 daily attendance, 41,155; number of teachers em- 

 ployed, male 1.115, female 2,522; average month- 

 ly 'salary, male $39.92, female $35.51; amount 

 paid teachers during the year, $682,175.30; re- 

 ceipts for school purposes, $2,089,617.63; number 

 of school libraries, 425; volumes, 32,902; volumes 

 added during the year, 7,244. 



Physical culture will hereafter be taught in all 

 schools of the State receiving State aid. 



The Agricultural College, at Fargo, received 

 from the State 130,000 acres of land; the normal 

 schools, 80,000 acres; the university, 86,080; in 

 all, for school purposes, 586,080. The college 

 at Fargo reported its total enrollment as 166; 

 average attendance, 150; annual expenses, $11,- 

 000; value of property, $80,000; endowment, $30,- 

 000; volumes in library, 2,556. 



The Northwestern Normal School gave the 

 number of teachers as 6; total pupils, 200; value 

 of property, $40,000. 



The industrial boarding school at Standing 

 Rock agency reported 17 teachers, 169 pupils, 122 

 average attendance, and 125 volumes in the li- 

 brary. 



The School for the Deaf, at Devil's Lake, had 50 

 pupils, with 16 applications on file at last report; 

 about $20,000 of the last appropriation of $47,000 

 for additional room has been spent. 



The last report of the State University, covering 

 the biennial years of 1897 and 1898, shows that 

 320 students attended the university in 1898, 

 exclusive of 150 that were in the summer school. 

 The placing of the high-school law on the stat- 

 ute books has been of great benefit to the uni- 

 versity, as 21 schools in the State are now doing 

 two years of high-school work, 14 of them three 

 years, and 7 of them four years of such work, 

 thus freeing the university from the preparatory 

 work almost entirely. The Sylvaton museum 

 contains collections of the grains of the State, 

 seeds from the field and garden and woods sec- 

 tions of trees, birds, birds' eggs, animals' heads, 

 minerals, coals, soils, etc. The walls are covered 

 with historical pictures, and the resources and 

 history of Dakota is attractively displayed. 



The State traveling libraries are doing good 

 work, and have received the support of educa- 

 tional bodies throughout the State. 



Legislative Session. The Legislature assem- 

 bled Jan. 5, and closed its session March 10. 

 i following were among the bills passed and 

 approved by the Governor? 



NORTHWEST TERRITORIES OF CANADA. 



Extending the term of residence in divorce cases 

 to twelve months, and requiring that plaintiff 

 must be a resident of the United States, or must 

 have declared his intention to become such. 



Providing that the innocent purchaser of in- 

 cumbered realty shall have recourse against the 

 granter. 



Providing that the court may direct the pay- 

 ment of alimony in divorce cases, where the de- 

 cree is granted for the offense of either the hus- 

 band or the wife. 



The appropriations for the State institutions 

 were: For the Agricultural College, $27,700; the 

 Penitentiary, $64,000; the university deficiency, 

 $7,000; the Mayville Normal School, $22,300; the 

 Valley City Normal School, $25,500; the State 

 deaf school", $47,000; the Soldiers' Home, $14,000; 

 the insane asylum, $105,500. 



On Jan. 26 Porter J. McCumber (Republican) 

 was elected United States Senator, receiving 32 

 votes out of a total of 46. 



NORTHWEST TERRITORIES OF CAN- 

 ADA. In 1898 the Legislature of these terri- 

 tories was dissolved and Mr. F. W. G. Haultain, 

 who since 1888 had been at the head of its chang- 

 ing constitutional system under the Lieutenant 

 Governor was sustained as Premier by a large 

 majority. The Legislature met on April 4, 1899, 

 and was opened by the recently appointed Lieu- 

 tenant Governor, A. E. Forget, with a speech 

 from the throne, of which the following are ex- 

 tracts : 



" After a residence of nearly a quarter of a 

 century in the territories, I am not unacquainted 

 with earlier conditions of life in this country, 

 and am well pleased to note that even at this 

 comparatively early period in their political his- 

 tory the people of the Territories are assured of 

 their future welfare, of which fact there are many 

 evidences. 



" On the twenty-sixth day of September last, 

 within three months of his arrival in the terri- 

 tories, Lieut.-Gov. Cameron died at London, in 

 the province of Ontario. My lamented prede- 

 cessor fittingly closed a long life, of which a con- 

 siderable part was actively spent in the service 

 of Canada, in the administration of these terri- 

 tories, and his unique personality will long re- 

 main a warm memory among those who knew 

 him. Though the period of his actual residence 

 in the territories was but brief, he had abun- 

 dantly shown that his heart and sympathies were 

 with our country and our people. 



" Owing to the unprecedented increase in the 

 work of departmental administration, I found it 

 necessary at the beginning of the year to call 

 to my aid the continuous services of the third 

 member of the Executive Council, and to make 

 such a distribution of the various offices provided 

 for by law as permitted the duties devolving upon 

 the members of my Government to receive closer 

 and more detailed attention than was previously 

 found to be possible. Much benefit to the public 

 services has resulted from this change. The con- 

 solidation of the ordinances of the territories has 

 been completed since the close of the last session 

 of the Legislative Assembly, and the printed vol- 

 umes will shortly be available. 



" The work of organizing the country under 

 the local improvement ordinance has been nearly 

 completed. There are now 450 districts ready 

 to commence their w r ork with the opening of 

 spring. The operation of the ordinance has shown 

 that its provisions can not be made to apply 

 in certain portions of the country where the 

 settlement is not close or continuous, and a meas- 

 ure will be submitted to you dealing with this 



